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27 Jun 40-m to year of life has died the Russian hockey referee Mikhail Buturlin, Jr., reports «R-Sport».

He was referee of the KHL season 2010-11.

In the Continental hockey League, he served 324 games (289 — in the regular season, and 27 in the playoffs and 8 in the Cup of Hope).

«I just got word that Mikhail Buturlin, Jr. felt bad on the bike. He was taken to the hospital, the night he spent in a coma. Today he died,» «R-Sport» quotes the words of the referee Vyacheslav Bulanov.

Mikhail Buturlin, Jr. — the son of a hockey player and hockey referee Mikhail Buturlin, and the older brother of former CSKA striker, «Spartacus» and «Salavat Yulaev» Alexander Buturlin.